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Ignite your rocketship engines and zoom your way through the caves of tiltfire.
Fly around tight corners and blast AI drones in this fast paced top-down shooter.
In tiltfire you control a rocketship through mostly linear 2D caves,
which are riddled with obstacles and hostile AI controlled drones.
In every cave your goal is to reach the teleporter, which teleports you to the next cave.
Traversing every cave in a stage fast enough awards you with a trophy.
Simple, yet convincing physics makes flying in tiltfire a joyride.
Features:
- Dead simple, buttery smooth controls.
- Over 70 meticulously designed levels spanning across 12 stages.
- High explosive missiles, homing missiles, laser guns, fast firing machine guns.
- Various obstacles, including saw blades and laser traps.
- You get to choose from 4 different weapons, which each fire in controlled bursts.
- Different types of drones which behave differently and use different guns.
- A level editor.
- An electronic soundtrack, which suits the look and feel of the game.
Created by a solo developer on a homemade game engine.
tiltfire soundtrack by Dry Valley and aleph_{0}.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
10/10 I am now a certified jet pilot
game is fun although controls are a bit of a learning curve, after getting them under control you'll appreciate the game mechanics.
The soundtrack of the game is also great addition to this game!
Steam User 2
Great game! Pretty challenging but not too frustrating.
Steam User 1
A highly skill based twin stick shooter. While there is not a lot of variety to the gameplay between the different levels, it is a good amount of fun trying to improve your skills and get through the levels with less deaths.
I can clearly feel my skills increasing, getting more and more familiar with how my ship and its attached gun behaves.
I can see this turn into a good speedrunning game, as it's pretty much 100% skill based whether you die or not, how fast you complete the levels.
Steam User 1
Tiltfire is a fast-paced twitchy game where you die and retry a lot, and it's growing on me as I play it The controls are difficult to master but fun once you get the hang of them. The soundtrack is easy to listen to at length and fits the game well. I think I can genuinely compare it to Hotline Miami, at least in the feeling I get from the gameplay. Tiltfire gives no story and it doesn't do much to build atmosphere, but that's not the point. The focus is on game mechanics and level design here.
I think I started to realize how well designed this game is when I noticed I was developing an intuition for how my ship moves so that I could kind of focus on both flying and shooting, in spite of my bullets pushing me backwards when I fire. I started being able to understand what maneuvers are best for each type of enemy. I got better and better at not crashing into walls while dodging missiles. I started planning paths through areas that would keep me moving fast enough to avoid machine gun fire.
The game's fun, give it a shot.